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ADULT TRANSITIONS: 21 ST CENTURY THINKING TOOLS, SKILLS, COMPETENCIES

ADULT TRANSITIONS: 21 ST CENTURY THINKING TOOLS, SKILLS, COMPETENCIES. What are thinking tools, skills, competencies? A New Course with New Teaching Methods Course Overview Introductions. Thinking Tools, Life Skills, Adult Competencies. What are these and why are they important?

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ADULT TRANSITIONS: 21 ST CENTURY THINKING TOOLS, SKILLS, COMPETENCIES

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  1. ADULT TRANSITIONS: 21ST CENTURY THINKING TOOLS, SKILLS, COMPETENCIES What are thinking tools, skills, competencies? A New Course with New Teaching Methods Course Overview Introductions

  2. Thinking Tools, Life Skills, Adult Competencies • What are these and why are they important? Thinking Tools • Ability to solve problems, make decisions, think for oneself • The most important portable skills for the 21st Century Life Skills • Adaptation, planning, conflict resolution, Three R’s Adult Competencies • Basic literacy, health literacy, cultural literacy, citizenship literacy, environmental literacy, communications literacy • Can they can be taught? • YES! Provided it can be deconstructed and presented as several discrete but interrelated skill sets

  3. Creating A New Course. . . • Course Background and History • This experimental course was approved three years ago by the College of Education • It has resulted in the development of new concepts and models: • Second Adulthood • Essential Life Skills • Critical Thinking Model • Lifelong Learning Model • “WOW!” Dream Life Planning • Adult “Life Intervention” Model

  4. Creating A New Course for Adult Learners Course Design • Designed specifically for adult learners • Practical learning with an obvious payoff • Blends theory to practice • Captures the historical significance of the Boomer generation, and connects this generation’s past-present-future [No existing teaching models or similarcourses]

  5. Creating A New Course for Baby Boomers . . . Course Teaching Methods • Uses all known learning techniques and modalities: • Direct instruction (lecture, demonstration, discussion) • Case studies, simulations, Socratic questioning, group learning, discovery learning, personal reflection • Taps visual, auditory, tactile, emotional modalities

  6. Course Overview Course Organization • Section 1: Understanding Adulthood • Section 2: Paradigm Shift in Aging, Retirement, End-of-Life Issues • Section 3: Essential Life Skills for the 21st Century • Section 4: Re-defining Adulthood • Section 5: Adult Interventions: Why, When, How?

  7. Course Overview Course Assignments • Connect past, present, future (thru analytical exercises) • Read assigned Handouts and articles, participate in Group Learning Activities (case studies) • Visit and observe adult service agencies in the community (e.g., hospice, senior center, independent living ctr) • Complete weekly personal assignments and create a course Portfolio (including Reflection Journal) • Complete Final Life Exam (group case study presentation)

  8. Introductions • Welcome • Meet Your Instructors • Stephen Barnes, Ph.D. • What Is the SDSU Interwork Institute? • Home to Department of Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education (ARPE) in the SDSU College of Education • Serves asresearch, teaching, andtrainingcenter for adult learners, including those with disabilities

  9. Introductions • Let’s meet each other . . .

  10. Course Overview What is this course really about? YOU!

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